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Google Images Safe Search Switch ChangedToday

Google image search made toggling the SafeSearch option a tiny bit easier, by including the settings switch menu right on the results page (instead of linking to the settings page, where one has to toggle a radio button option and hit a save button).* SafeSearch is Google’s adult content filter that can be turned off in most countries, though interestingly enough not in (at least) Google China.

*I believe this is rather new, but don’t know when exactly it was added.

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Images Safe Search Switch Changed | Comments]

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Friendfeed's Real-time SearchJuly 3

Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on):

PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it’s there.

[Hat tip to Websonic!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Friendfeed's Real-time Search | Comments]

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Gmail With Drag & DropJuly 2

Drag and drop has come to Gmail: you can now drag a message by its left-hand grid, and move it into a label/ folder to the left side. Also, you can now re-arrange labels via drag & drop.
[Thanks Cookie Lee and Niranjan!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Gmail With Drag & Drop | Comments]

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A Changed Google Results Layout, Perhaps ExperimentalJune 29

I’m currently seeing a slightly changed layout for Google results. The Google logo has gotten smaller, and there’s more padding to the left. In Firefox, the file holding the logo for the new layout is called nav_logo6.png (when I open the old layout in Chrome, it’s nav_logo4.png).

This redesign could well be just an experimental prototype, and nothing that’s rolled out for everyone, I don’t know... who else is seeing the changed layout?

(Recently, the Google homepage also presented itself with less padding below the search box, but that may have been a temporary bug... it doesn’t show anymore to me.)

[Hat tip to WebSonic.nl and Tony!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A Changed Google Results Layout, Perhaps Expe ... | Comments]

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YouTube Changes Channel Layout, Gets 48,000+ CommentsJune 26

A YouTube blog entry by a YouTube manager announcing the roll-out of a new channel design has so far received 48,668 comments, and growing. Looks like not everyone is happy (and it may or may not be that unhappy users are more vocal, too, right now). Included in the most recent comments right now are things like:

• “i think u should ask the viewers before u make your choice. please do that ... =]”
• “support this video against the mandatory changes - http://www.youtube.com/wat...”
• “Please allow the choice of both old and new channel designs.”

... as well as full blown ASCII protest art.

[Thanks Ionut and A.!]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: YouTube Changes Channel Layout, Gets 48,000+ ... | Comments]

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